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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: How are you doing
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 10:47:45 GMT
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In article <38ann0INN3pg@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>,
Scott Horne <horne-scott@cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>In article <382c3m$pjb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, hlu@wam.umd.edu (Hung Jung Lu) writes:
><
><1) Austronesian (aborigen
><Taiwanese, but then there are 11 tribes of them,
>
>Eleven?  I can think of only ten:  the Ami, the Atayal, the Bunun,
>the Paiwan, the Puyuma, the Rukai, the Saisiat, the Thao, the Tsou,
>and the Yami.  (In Chinese:  A1mei3, Tai4ya3, Bu4nong2, Pai2wan1,
>Bei1nan2, Lu3kai3, Sai4xia4, Shao4, Zou1, Ya3mei3.)  Which one am I
>forgetting?
>

Merrit Ruhlen's "A Guide to the World's Languages" gives the following:

ATAYALIC: 
  Atayal, Sedeq
TSOUIC: 
  Rukai
  Tsou, Kanakanabu, Saaroa
PAIWANIC: 
  Bunun, Paiwan, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Ami
  (Sinicized): Kavalan, Pazeh, Thao
  (Extinct): Ketangalan, Basay, Taokas, Papora, Babuza, Hoanya, Siraya
 
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